Survival for Nintendo Switch — top best games in the Survival genre / Page 2

Death Road to Canada - a game in the Survival genre

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Roguelike, Zombies, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 May 2018

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Death Road to Canada is a top-down action RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world. You will go to the center of a full-scale invasion of the living dead...

I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival

Isometric, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, Survival, Crafting, Casual game, Farm Simulator, Role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 January 2026

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 83/100

The game takes place in a destroyed and flooded post-apocalyptic city. The main character builds a shelter on the roof of a skyscraper. You can...

Path of Titans

Action, Online, MMO, Third-person view, Survival, Role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 August 2022

A multiplayer survival simulator dedicated to the life of dinosaurs in an open world. The game features dozens of species of prehistoric creatures...

Bad North

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Survival, Roguelike

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 20 August 2018

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Bad North is a minimalist real-time strategy game with tower defense elements and an isometric camera view. You have to defend your island against...

Kona

Adventure, First-person view, Survival, Detective

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 9 March 2018

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Kona: Day One is a survival adventure game with a first-person perspective. The game takes place in 1970, in Northern Quebec. Private detective Carl...

Dementium: The Ward

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Old school, Survival horror, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 October 2023

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Waking up in an abandoned hospital with no memory of the past, the hero finds himself in a nightmare where the walls whisper, shadows breathe, and...

Kentum

Simulation, Post-apocalyptic, Side view, Science fiction, Construction, Crafting, Survival, Metroidvania

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 6 November 2025

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 75/100

A sci-fi adventure in which the protagonist awakens from a very long sleep in the year 10,000. You must explore a world with new plants and animals...

Flame in the Flood

Adventure, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 October 2017

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Flame in the Flood is a survival adventure game in which the player will wander through procedurally generated levels, exploring the slums of the...

Endling - Extinction is Forever

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Adventure, Indie, Stealth, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 July 2022

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Endling — Extinction is Forever is a fun side-scrolling adventure in which you need to help the last adult fox on Earth. She needs to lead her...

Slaycation Paradise

Action, Shooter, Isometric, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Survival, Zombies

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 August 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 81/100

Slaycation Paradise is a post-apocalyptic isometric shooter with tower defense elements. The game tells the story of a family who was offered an...

Minabo - A walk through life

Casual game, Procedural generation, Side view, Simulation, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 April 2023

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 65/100

The player controls a turnip who meets others to form his own personality. At the same time, the hero acquires strong and weak traits that affect...

Forager

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Indie, Open world, Adventure, Survival, Crafting

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 30 July 2019

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Forager is a fun top-down arcade clicker game with RPG elements, inspired by Stardew Valley, Terraria and Zelda. You will explore everything around...

Skyhill

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Survival, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 February 2019

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Skyhill is a quest with survival elements. The main character ends up in a hotel called SKYHILL, where he rents the safest room on the hundredth...

Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness

Horror, Survival, Puzzle, Side view, Point & Click

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 17 October 2023

Steam: 88/100

A pixelated psychological game in which the protagonist explores the history of a 1920s freak circus that burned to the ground. The character solves...

The Survivalists

Action, Roguelike, Isometric, Adventure, Indie, Crafting, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 9 October 2020

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 72/100

The Survivalists is a sandbox adventure game with roguelike elements and an isometric camera view set in the Escapists universe. In the game you will...

HeatWave

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Open world, Survival

Game in development: Nintendo Switch → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.8/10

Steam: 95/100

HeatWave is a tactical turn-based combat simulator set in Alaska in the year 2080. A climate catastrophe has occurred in the world, and the United...

DEADCRAFT

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Action, Slasher, Survival, Zombies

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 May 2022

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 76/100

DEADCRAFT is a post-apocalyptic zombie survival game with a top-down view from the creators of Daemon X Machina and Doraemon: Story of Seasons...

Chernobyl: Origins

Adventure, Survival horror, Exploration, Visual novel, Survival, Horror

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 April 2023

Players: 7/10

Steam: 85/100

The events of the game take place in 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The main character is a scientist from a secret laboratory located in...

Dice Legacy

Business / Management, Strategy, Roguelike, Isometric, Futurism (Future), In real time, City Building, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 9 September 2021

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Dice Legacy is a city building simulator with roguelike elements and an isometric camera view. In the game, you take the reins of your kingdom by...

60 Seconds! Reatomized

Simulation, Business / Management, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Point & Click, Survival, Comedy, Strategy, Exploration

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 December 2020

Steam: 95/100

An updated version of the black comedy 60 Seconds! with survival elements, where a few dozen seconds separate ordinary family life from a nuclear...

First Dwarf

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Survival, Exploration, Open world, Fantasy, Construction, Crafting

Game in development: Nintendo Switch → 2027

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 77/100

A fantasy survival game about dwarves, in which the dwarf Tru and the dragon Ragnu build a settlement for refugees from the dwarf kingdom. As they...

Don't Starve: Reign of Giants

Simulation, Action, DLC, Isometric, Roguelike, Survival, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 April 2018

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 96/100

Don't Starve: Reign of Giants is an add-on for an action-adventure game with survival elements. The game world has become even larger and more...

Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip

Adventure, Comics, Visual novel, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Comedy, Online

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 May 2020

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 73/100

A visual novel about the hilarious road adventures of four friends. You can play alone or with...

Residual

Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Survival, Exploration, Action

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 9 September 2021

Steam: 66/100

A lonely explorer makes an emergency landing on a strange planet that holds an ancient secret. The character explores a procedurally generated world...

Skyhill: Black Mist

Action, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 August 2020

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 41/100

Skyhill: Black Mist — the continuation of the captivating adventure Skyhill with survival elements and an isometric camera view. The main...

Nova Lands

Construction, Business / Management, Action, Top-down view, Crafting, Sandbox, Open world, Exploration, Indie, Adventure, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 22 June 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 79/100

The hero finds himself on a colorful planet full of secrets, amazing creatures, people and interesting activities. His task is to build a new house...

Dragon Ball: The Breakers

Survival, Online, Anime / Manga, Action, Comedy, Adventure, Cooperative (co-op), Arcade, Third-person view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 October 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 54/100

Metacritic: 54/100

Dragon Ball: The Breakers is a third-person survival action-adventure game for multiple players. It's an asymmetrical online game where a group of 7...

Radiation Island

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 22 February 2018

Players: 9/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Radiation Island is an action-adventure game with a first-person view and horror elements. This is a game where you determine your own destiny in a...

Don't Starve: Shipwrecked

Action, DLC, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Survival, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 April 2018

Players: 7/10

Steam: 95/100

Don't Starve: Shipwrecked is an add-on for the isometric survival action game Don't Starve. It adds new characters and creatures, several locations...

Help Will Come Tomorrow

Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Business / Management, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 April 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Help Will Come Tomorrow is an adventure management simulator with survival elements. In the uninhabited Siberian desert after the October Revolution...

Layers of Fear: Legacy

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 February 2018

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Layers of Fear: Legacy — a special version of the psychological horror game with a first-person view for Nintendo Switch. Players will get into...

Garage

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, Top-down view, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 May 2018

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 63/100

Garage is a dynamic arcade action-horror game with a top-down view. The game is inspired by the VHS movie era, and also has graphics stylized to...

Time Flies

Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Open world, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 31 July 2025

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A minimalist adventure about a fly with a huge list of wishes and a very short life to realize them. In the game, she can learn to play an...

Jurassic World Aftermath Collection

Stealth, Survival, First-person view, Puzzle, Adventure, Action

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 November 2022

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 65/100

The main character makes an emergency landing on the island of Isla Nublar, where the dinosaurs from the Jurassic World park have broken free. To...

OTXO

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 March 2024

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A dynamic top-down shooter with roguelike elements, where the search for a missing beloved leads the main character to a mysterious mansion that...

Dying Light: Platinum Edition

Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 October 2021

Metacritic: 78/100

A survival game about fighting zombies. Dying Light pits players against hordes of the undead; Platinum Edition also includes additional game modes...

Clea 2

Survival, Anime / Manga, Survival horror, Stealth

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 25 March 2021

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Clea 2 is a stealth survival horror sequel to the 2019 game. Four years after the Whitlock Mansion tragedy, Florine, a former maid, sets out to...

The Backrooms 1998

Survival horror, Old school, First-person view, Adventure, Action, Walking Simulator, Indie, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 20 February 2025

Steam: 80/100

A psychological horror game from the first person, styled as a found videotape. The story tells about a teenager who accidentally finds himself in...

Smoke and Sacrifice

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 31 May 2018

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Smoke and Sacrifice is an action-adventure RPG with an isometric camera view. You will try on the role of a girl named Sachi, who goes in search of...

Destropolis

Survival, Arcade, Roguelike

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 November 2020

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Destropolis is a top-down shooter in which the player fights countless waves of enemies in fully destructible environments. Bullets, lasers and...

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Best Games in the Survival genre for Nintendo Switch